The mask is as follows: firstly in a particular ideological and political conception of freedom as the freedom to buy and sell whatever you want (including your

The mask is as follows: firstly in a particular ideological and political conception of freedom as the freedom to buy and sell whatever you want (including your own labour), along with some things given by the liberal egalitarian state, secondly in the liberal construction of "free will" as the opposite of coercion. Marx criticized liberalism for its narrow conception of what it means to be free, and before that, Spinoza outlined why it is meaningless to talk of "coercion" and "consent" as proponents of negative liberties tend to talk about them. It is not enough to be free, freedom lies, as Zizek says, in the freedom to define your own idea of freedom outside of the ideological context in which it is given to you, whether that's a Western capitalist ideology or one given to you by the CCP.